[Web4lib] Library Website

[Jon Goodell]

Hi Steven,

Can you explain in more detail why these standards are important to libraries, especially in the community college context?  How should I explain this to my library director and her superiors?
 
Thank you,
Jon
  
Jon Goodell
Technology Services & Reference Librarian
Pulaski Technical College - Ottenheimer Library
North Little Rock, AR
501-812-2718
jgoodell at pulaskitech.edu

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From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org on behalf of Stiofan Perkins
Sent: Fri 4/14/2006 7:26 PM
To: Ian Chan; web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Library Website



Ian:

An interesting list.  Only two of them pass the W3
HTML validator, four of them pass the automated
section 508 tests at Cynthia Says, and none of them
pass the automated WAI tests also at Cynthia Says.
While those results do not mean the pages are
unaccessible, they do indicate that more attention
needs to be paid to accessibility in library web page
design.

Regards,

Steven C. Perkins
Coordinator of Reference Services
MD Anderson Library
University of Houston


--- Ian Chan <afitc at uaa.alaska.edu> wrote:

> 
> Hi Jon,
>
> This page lists several libraries that have
> undergone web redesigns in
> the last couple years:
>
http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/about/project/libraries.php.
> The
> documentation from University of Washington was
> especially helpful.  MIT
> libraries has also done an excellent job tracing
> their web development
> process.
> 
> Summary of our re-design process.
> http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/about/project/
>
> Nicely re-designed community college website:
> http://dept.sccd.ctc.edu/sslib/
>
> One of my favorite university library web sites:
> http://www.lib.umn.edu/
> - re-designed in the last year or two?
>
>
---------------------------------------------------------
> Ian Chan
> Assistant Professor
> Web Services Librarian
> UAA/APU Consortium Library
> http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/
> 907.786.1835
>
>

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